Subtle Differences

Actions can be deceivingly similar on the surface when they are coming from drastically different places:

• Wanting to be liked by someone vs. liking someone
• Fear vs. love - fear of not being liked vs. genuine kindness for example
• Necessity vs. choice
• Fake empathy to alleviate pain in themselves vs. real empathy without their own agenda or projection

In some past moments, I went back and forth on living with as much clarity as possible on the motivations behind actions vs. intentionally keeping the cover on sometimes - ignorance is bliss after all.

Now it is getting clearer to me that clarity is critical to building deeper relationships and a fuller life.